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Volume 20, Issue 1 (Summer 2005)

Table of Contents

“‘Divided Loyalties’: Iris Origo’s War in Val d’Orcia” by Louise Yelin

“A Revised Approach to Relationality in Women’s Autobiography: The Case of Eliza Linton’s The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland” by Peaches Henry

“Resistance Literature at Home: Rereading Women’s Autobiographies from the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement” by Janice Chernekoff

“‘What Wretched Creatures Are We Servants!’ Female Working-Class Agency in Two German Autobiographies at the Turn of the Century” by Birit A. Jensen

“Norma Elia Cantu’s Fictional Autobiography: Not-Quite-Turn Stories about Real Life on la Frontera” by Jeraldine R. Kraver

Reviews

How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present by Alison Booth (U of Chicago P, 2000). Reviewed by Janice Carlisle

The Text Is Myself: Women’s Life Writing and Catastrophe by Miriam Fuchs (U of Wisconsin P, 2004). Reviewed by Brenda Daly

Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing by G. Thomas Couser (Cornell UP, 2004). Reviewed by Tanya Y. Kam

But Enough about Me: Why We Read Other People’s Lives by Nancy K. Miller (Columbia UP, 2002). Reviewed by Andromeda Hartwick and Caroline McCracken-Flesher

The Value of Solitude: The Ethics and Spirituality of Aloneness in Autobiography by John D. Barbour (U of Virginia P, 2004). Reviewed by Kevin Lewis

Romantic Biography. Ed. Arthur Bradley and Alan Rawes (Ashgate, 2003). Reviewed by Mark D. Merritt

Borderlines: Autobiography and Fiction in Postmodern Life Writing by Gunnthórunn Gudmundsdóttir (Rodopi, 2003). Reviewed by Jeanne Perreault

The Mirror and the Veil: An Overview of American Online Diaries and Blogs by Viviane Serfaty (Rodopi, 2004). Reviewed by Elizabeth Podnieks

The Russian Memoir: History and Literature. Ed. Beth Holmgren (Northwestern UP, 2003). Reviewed by Larissa Rudova

Self-Same Songs: Autobiographical Performances and Reflections by Roger J. Porter (U of Nebraska P, 2002). Reviewed by Thomas R. Smith

The Philosopher’s Autobiography: A Qualitative Study by Shlomit C. Schuster (Praeger, 2004). Reviewed by Susan Tridgell

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